Lullabies for little criminals
By: Heather O'Neill
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Clipper Large Print
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9781407426761
Subjects: Teenage girls; Fiction; Fathers and daughters; Social conditions
Description: Twelve-year-old Baby is used to turmoil in her life. Her mother is long dead, her father is a junkie and they shuttle between rotting apartments and decrepit downtown hotels. As her father's addiction and paranoia grow worse, she begins a journey that will lead her in and out of several foster homes, a detention centre and eventually onto the streets as a prostitute. Throughout the chaos and hardship of her life, Baby's remarkable strength of spirit enables her to survive. Smart, funny and determined to escape the city's dirty streets, she knows that the only person she can truly rely upon is herself.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Harper Perennial, 2006.